Wally Backman reached out to Mets for job, but GM Sandy Alderson shut it down in curt e-mail: source https://t.co/KClCdqExDn pic.twitter.com/9QxKuvof8a
— NY Daily News Sports (@NYDNSports) October 30, 2017
Wally Backman asked to come home, back to the New York Mets. General manager Sandy Alderson wouldn’t even consider it.
After a bizarre and ugly break up last year, former World Series champion and Mets minor league manager Wally Backman reached out to Sandy Alderson for a job with the Mets, according to a report by Kristie Ackert of the New York Daily News.